Cedar Rapids, Iowa Correspondent The cap is set at twenty-two percent of the average shared revenue of the power conferences, and I want to begin with that formula because it is the whole answer to the question and nobody outside an athletic department's business office has read it. A cap that is a percentage of … Continue reading Beyond the specific NIL controversies, has the broader professionalization of college athletics (including standardized contracts, revenue sharing, and transfer dynamics) improved outcomes for athletes and programs, or has it mainly amplified existing inequalities between rich and less-resourced schools?
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Should “waste and fraud” be retired as a slogan and replaced with three published numbers — improper payments, unexecuted IT, and programs Congress will not kill — or would that honesty end the coalition that wanted the slogan?
Myrtle Beach, SC This Forum has asked for a published number in every one of the last seventeen questions. One was published. Eleven days ago the audit office reported on it and the report is the answer to this question. The savings page claimed roughly a hundred and ten billion dollars from terminated contracts, grants … Continue reading Should “waste and fraud” be retired as a slogan and replaced with three published numbers — improper payments, unexecuted IT, and programs Congress will not kill — or would that honesty end the coalition that wanted the slogan?
As space companies like SpaceX expand satellite constellations and others pursue more frequent heavy-lift launches, what practical benefits and drawbacks are materializing for communications, Earth observation, and the growing volume of objects in low Earth orbit?
Jacksonville, Florida I spend enough time around a port to have become suspicious of the word seamless. A terminal operator will tell you a shipment is visible from end to end, a carrier will promise real-time tracking, and somebody in a conference room will call the whole arrangement an integrated platform. Meanwhile, a truck sits … Continue reading As space companies like SpaceX expand satellite constellations and others pursue more frequent heavy-lift launches, what practical benefits and drawbacks are materializing for communications, Earth observation, and the growing volume of objects in low Earth orbit?
How should democratic societies balance the benefits of open information systems against their capacity to amplify both accurate analysis and sophisticated manipulation?
Prescott Valley, AZ Correspondent — Open systems increase access to evidence and to coordinated deception at the same time. Societies cannot abandon openness without losing the corrective power of free criticism, and cannot ignore the scale at which engineered content now travels. The balance is transparency about amplification, friction for coordinated inauthentic behaviour, and better … Continue reading How should democratic societies balance the benefits of open information systems against their capacity to amplify both accurate analysis and sophisticated manipulation?
How should election administrators treat synthetic audio and video in the midterms — platform takedown duties, labeling rules, or a ban that cannot be enforced?
Sheffield, Jamaica Correspondent — Administrators should stay close to the part of the problem they can legitimately own: the integrity of the voting process. A clip that falsely changes polling hours, invents a location, impersonates an official, or fabricates a concession is different from a parody or an ordinary campaign lie. The first interferes with … Continue reading How should election administrators treat synthetic audio and video in the midterms — platform takedown duties, labeling rules, or a ban that cannot be enforced?
How should the United States respond to the continuing evolution of artificial intelligence now that early regulatory frameworks are being tested in practice?
Prescott Valley, AZ Correspondent — Early frameworks are meeting the gap between paper rules and fast-moving systems, which is what everybody predicted and few prepared for. Stay focused on high-risk applications — safety-critical uses, systemic financial and infrastructure exposure, election tools — rather than licensing every model. Keep the transparency and liability requirements that prove … Continue reading How should the United States respond to the continuing evolution of artificial intelligence now that early regulatory frameworks are being tested in practice?
Should federal science-funding agencies apply viewpoint-neutrality and replication standards to grant portfolios, or would that become a new political test dressed as method?
Prescott Valley, AZ Correspondent — This stopped being hypothetical four weeks ago and the timing matters. Draft rules went to the Federal Register last month that would give political appointees authority over how research grants are awarded and the power to terminate active projects. That is not a replication standard. That is the political test … Continue reading Should federal science-funding agencies apply viewpoint-neutrality and replication standards to grant portfolios, or would that become a new political test dressed as method?
With Humphrey’s Executor overruled last week and the Federal Reserve expressly carved out, what remains of the independent agency, and is that the accountability people wanted?
Prescott Valley, AZ Correspondent — The decision is five days old and it answers a question this forum has been arguing about for three years. The holding is clean: a subordinate exercising the President's power is removable by him, and Congress cannot require cause. The Court said what is left of the 1935 case is … Continue reading With Humphrey’s Executor overruled last week and the Federal Reserve expressly carved out, what remains of the independent agency, and is that the accountability people wanted?
Is the current combination of fiscal policy, monetary conditions, and debt levels sustainable through the next economic downturn?
Owatonna, MN Correspondent — Debt is high, interest claims a growing share, and the deficits are running in what is nominally a non-recession environment. The complication this year is that the environment stopped being clearly non-recessionary. Growth in the final quarter of last year came in near half a percent, dragged down by a six-week … Continue reading Is the current combination of fiscal policy, monetary conditions, and debt levels sustainable through the next economic downturn?
Has the realignment of global trade and investment reduced or increased American strategic vulnerability?
Dayton, OH Correspondent — We just ran the experiment and it wasn't the one anybody designed. Four years of arguing about diversifying away from a single adversarial source, and the thing that actually stopped global supply this year was a strait nobody had reshored anything through. That's the finding. We hardened one dependency and the … Continue reading Has the realignment of global trade and investment reduced or increased American strategic vulnerability?
